Veronique De Sy

Biographic Data

ID3452673
NAMEVeronique De Sy
GIVEN NAMESVeronique
FAMILY NAMEDe Sy
SIGNATUREDE SY V
AFFILIATIONSWageningen University & Research
ORCID0000-0003-3647-7866
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS18
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT18
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Data and information in a political forest: The case of Redd

    Open AccessMaria Brockhaus, Veronique De Sy et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2024References: 17

  • Towards the use of satellite-based tropical forest disturbance alerts to assess selective logging intensities

    Open AccessAnne-Juul Welsink, Johannes Reiche et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Illegal logging is an important driver of tropical forest loss. A wide range of organizations and interested parties wish to track selective logging activities and verify logging intensities as reported by timber companies. Recently, free availability of 10 m scale optical and radar Sentinel data has resulted in several satellite-based alert systems that can detect increasingly small-scale forest disturbances in near-real time. This paper provide…

  • Disentangling the numbers behind agriculture-driven tropical deforestation

    Open AccessFlorence Pendrill, Toby Gardner et al.ARTICLEScience2022

    Tropical deforestation continues at alarming rates with profound impacts on ecosystems, climate, and livelihoods, prompting renewed commitments to halt its continuation. Although it is well established that agriculture is a dominant driver of deforestation, rates and mechanisms remain disputed and often lack a clear evidence base. We synthesize the best available pantropical evidence to provide clarity on how agriculture drives deforestation. Alt…

  • Intra-annual relationship between precipitation and forest disturbance in the African rainforest

    Open AccessYaqing Gou, Johannes Balling et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Analysis of forest disturbance patterns in relation to precipitation seasonality is important for understanding African tropical forest dynamics under changing climate conditions and different levels of human activities. Newly available radar-based forest disturbance information now enables an investigation of the intra-annual relationship between precipitation and forest disturbance in a spatially and temporally explicit manner, especially in th…

  • How do Redd+ projects contribute to the goals of the Paris Agreement

    Open AccessStibniati Atmadja, A E Duchelle et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Hundreds of projects to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and enhance carbon stocks (REDD+) are implemented globally, many by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) or for-profit companies. Yet, at the global level, the Paris Agreement focuses on jurisdictional (national and subnational) REDD+. We ask: (1) How much can REDD+ projects contribute to achieving national and international climate objectives? (2) What are the is…

  • Detecting vulnerability of humid tropical forests to multiple stressors

    Open AccessSassan Saatchi, Marcos Longo et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2021

  • Aboveground forest biomass varies across continents, ecological zones and successional stages: Refined IPCC default values for tropical and subtropical forests

    Open AccessDanaë M A Rozendaal, Daniela Requena Suarez et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    For monitoring and reporting forest carbon stocks and fluxes, many countries in the tropics and subtropics rely on default values of forest aboveground biomass (AGB) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventories. Default IPCC forest AGB values originated from 2006, and are relatively crude estimates of average values per continent and ecological zone. The 2006 default values wer…

  • Variation in aboveground biomass in forests and woodlands in Tanzania along gradients in environmental conditions and human use

    Open AccessDaniela Requena Suarez, Danaë M A Rozendaal et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Disturbed African tropical forests and woodlands have the potential to contribute to climate change mitigation. Therefore, there is a need to understand how carbon stocks of disturbed and recovering tropical forests are determined by environmental conditions and human use. In this case study, we explore how gradients in environmental conditions and human use determine aboveground biomass (AGB) in 1958 national forest inventory (NFI) plots located…

  • An assessment of data sources, data quality and changes in national forest monitoring capacities in the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005–2020

    Open AccessKarimon Nesha, Martin Herold et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Globally, countries report forest information to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations Global Forest Resources Assessments (FRA) at regular intervals. While the status and trends of national forest monitoring capacities have been previously assessed for the tropics, this has not been systematically done worldwide. In this paper, we assess the use and quality of forest monitoring data sources for national reporting to t…

  • Integrated assessment of deforestation drivers and their alignment with subnational climate change mitigation efforts

    Open AccessAstrid Bos, Astrid B Bos et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2020Cited by: 4References: 6

    Efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and enhancing forest carbon stocks (REDD+) have evolved over the past decade. Early REDD+ programs and local/subnational projects used various interventions (i.e. enabling measures, disincentives and incentives), implemented by government, the commercial and non-commercial private sector, but are currently understudied vis-à-vis their effectiveness to address site-specific driv…

  • Tropical deforestation drivers and associated carbon emission factors derived from remote sensing data

    Open AccessVeronique De Sy, Martin Herold et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and enhancing carbon stocks (REDD+) is a crucial component of global climate change mitigation. Remote sensing can provide continuous and spatially explicit above-ground biomass (AGB) estimates, which can be valuable for the quantification of carbon stocks and emission factors (EFs). Unfortunately, there is little information on the fate of the land following tropical deforestation and…

  • Independent data for transparent monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions from the land use sector – What do stakeholders think and need

    Open AccessErika Romijn, Veronique De Sy et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2018Cited by: 2

    The agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) sectors contribute substantially to the net global anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To reduce these emissions under the Paris Agreement, effective mitigation actions are needed that require engagement of multiple stakeholders. Emission reduction also requires that accurate, consistent and comparable datasets are available for transparent reference and progress monitoring. Availabil…

  • Agriculture-driven deforestation in the tropics from 1990–2015: Emissions, trends and uncertainties

    Open AccessSarah Carter, Martin Herold et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017

    Limited data exists on emissions from agriculture-driven deforestation, and available data are typically uncertain. In this paper, we provide comparable estimates of emissions from both all deforestation and agriculture-driven deforestation, with uncertainties for 91 countries across the tropics between 1990 and 2015. Uncertainties associated with input datasets (activity data and emissions factors) were used to combine the datasets, where most c…

  • Comparing methods for assessing the effectiveness of subnational Redd+ initiatives

    Open AccessAstrid Bos, Astrid B Bos et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017

    The central role of forests in climate change mitigation, as recognized in the Paris agreement, makes it increasingly important to develop and test methods for monitoring and evaluating the carbon effectiveness of REDD+. Over the last decade, hundreds of subnational REDD+ initiatives have emerged, presenting an opportunity to pilot and compare different approaches to quantifying impacts on carbon emissions. This study (1) develops a Before-After-…

  • Land use patterns and related carbon losses following deforestation in South America

    Open AccessVeronique De Sy, Martin Herold et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2015

    Land use change in South America, mainly deforestation, is a large source of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Identifying and addressing the causes or drivers of anthropogenic forest change is considered crucial for global climate change mitigation. Few countries however, monitor deforestation drivers in a systematic manner. National-level quantitative spatially explicit information on drivers is often lacking. This study quantifies proximate drivers…

  • How countries link Redd+ interventions to drivers in their readiness plans: Implications for monitoring systems

    Open AccessG Salvini, Martin Herold et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2014

    Countries participating in the REDD+ scheme are in the readiness phase, designing policy interventions to address drivers of deforestation and forest degradation (DD). In order for REDD+ interventions to be effective, it is essential that they take into account the specific drivers that they aim to address. Moreover it is crucial to design systems that monitor the effectiveness of the planned interventions. In this article we provide a comprehens…

  • An assessment of deforestation and forest degradation drivers in developing countries

    Open AccessNoriko Hosonuma, Martin Herold et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2012

    Countries are encouraged to identify drivers of deforestation and forest degradation in the development of national strategies and action plans for REDDC. In this letter we provide an assessment of proximate drivers of deforestation and forest degradation by synthesizing empirical data reported by countries as part of their REDDC readiness activities, CIFOR country profiles, UNFCCC national communications and scientific literature. Based on defor…

  • Synergies of multiple remote sensing data sources for Redd+ monitoring

    Open AccessVeronique De Sy, Martin Herold et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2012Cited by: 3References: 4